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...value in the Wharf beyond its importance as the former center of the cod-fishing industry--one of the industries significantly responsible for raising Massachusetts Bay to its major commercial status. Nor do they claim any architectural beauty. Quaint it may be, but not beautiful. Yet it has an aura which, as Mr. Love remarked, "seems to have a knack of inducing acute nostalgia in anone who has ever known it--including...
CHRYSLER PROBLEMS increase. Dissident Stockholder Sol A. Dann vowed to start a proxy fight to oust management. Deposed President William C. Newberg sued Chairman and President L. L. Colbert for $5,250,000, charging that Colbert conspired to make Newberg look dishonest to give himself "an aura of righteousness." Only cheery note: Chrysler 1960 earnings were $3.61 per share, first yearly profit since...
...news was considered urgent enough to summon members of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee to Washington for an urgent unscheduled meeting. CIA Director Allen Dulles hastily arranged a talk with President-elect John Kennedy. Around it all was an aura of deep secrecy. Was it someone's first successful Abomb? Was it a nuclear pile gone critical? Those in the know would say only that there has been an "atomic development" by an "nth power...
...though Kennedy's self assurance borders on a kind of arrogance, it adds to the aura of victory that follows the Senator's motorcade. Surely the newsmen covering the candidate are nearly unanimous in predicting--and hoping for--his election. Nearly all the reports coming from the Kennedy press contingent have been wildly enthusiastic about the success of his campaign--an enthusiasm that adds to the bandwagon effect. But this prediction of victory is not fully justified simply on the basis of what the reporters they observe. It is difficult to have a balanced view when covering just...
...backgrounds. Although most of Lodge's friends were Bostonians like himself or New Yorkers, the residents of the suite in Randolph included a couple of Midwesterners and a Cuban named Thorvald Sanchez, whose father managed a string of dairy farms. John Mason Brown and Corliss Lamont provided a literary aura. James M. Newell, Jr., Lodge's immediate roommate, can recall heated arguments between Cabot, who then admired his grandfather's stand against the League of Nations, and the vehemently liberal Lament, who once urged the Union to invite Eugene V. Debs to speak at the University. "They were good friends...